us by the Holy Apostles, even if they did not use this specific term. This is the teaching that we have received from the Holy Fathers... The Blessed Virgin is truly the Mother of God since she supernaturally

testify? And yet, such was her testimony and such was she herself, that these human traits which could have discouraged John's faith in the divinity and form an insurmountable ordeal, were instead a source

who speaks to Mary, and the Holy Spirit who comes to take her under His shadow. The impression we have is that the whole of Heaven visited the house of Nazareth. The Annunciation is mysterious also in [...] Virgin Mary: "Fiat mihi ... Let it be done to me according to your word," Mary replies to the Angel. Having opened the way of her heart, Mary also opened the way of her body: she first conceived Jesus in her

than the Blessed Virgin, Our Lady of Beauraing. Nobody cared to believe what the children claimed to have seen. But the next evening they came home with the same story. The villagers laughed at them and their [...] Mrs. Acar were declared miraculous by a decree given by Msgr. Charue. Many conversions and graces have been obtained through the intercession of Our Lady of Beauraing. The editor of the Belgian Communist

can see, the prayer is one of confidence in the power of Mary’s intercession. It is only right to have complete trust in Our Lady. After all, she is the Mother, Daughter and Spouse of God, and God will [...] trusting in her mercy, begs her to grant him favors. It is a good idea when saying the Memorare to have a particular petition in mind. It is believed that Saint Bernard of Clairvaux composed the Memorare

Excellency the Bishop of Leiria and through your Most Holy Mother and mine. After the two parts which I have already explained, at the left of Our Lady and a little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword [...] halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way; having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big Cross he was killed by a group

religious missionary congregations have chosen the patronage of the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God’s Word. Of about 400 female congregations of apostolic life, 130 have a Marian name. No one has loved the

all evildoers, the company of Mary is a blinding pain–a light they have rejected and are revolted by. The Rosary tells us we can have this–simply by praying that simple prayer. How can anyone then easily

by Catholics themselves, and therefore it is not surprising that those who are not Catholic often have a completely wrong conception of Catholic devotion to the Mother of God. They imagine, and sometimes [...] received from Him through Christ. As a matter of fact, this is precisely her greatest glory: that having nothing of her own, retaining nothing of a "self" that could glory in anything for her own sake,

saint of carpenters, asking for a solution. After finishing the novena, according to testimonies that have passed from generation to generation since the mid-nineteenth century, a man appeared at the door [...] square and a few other simple tools, and disappeared as soon as the work was finished, without ever having asked for any payment for his services. … In any case, the original staircase was not attached to